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Phys.org / Tabby's star may be orbited by a planetary-mass companion

By analyzing data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and conducting new radial velocity measurements, U.K. and French astronomers have found evidence that the mysterious Tabby's star may be orbited by ...

Jul 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa, study finds

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet researchers and public health officials have long argued over how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study resolves this debate, providing ...

Jul 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Chemicals present in drinking water may carry a hidden risk tied to uterine cancer

In a recent study, researchers examined whether certain chemicals present in public drinking water are linked to uterine cancer, the most common gynecological cancer in the United States and one that has been steadily increasing ...

Jul 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence agent that hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / A successful, sustainable catalyst for ethanol dehydrogenation

Ethanol is an alcohol used in a vast number of industrial and household applications. When dehydrogenated—in this case, stripped of some of its hydrogen atoms—it yields another important compound: acetaldehyde, which is used ...

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own problem.

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / The cost of memory: How organisms balance thinking and sensing

Remembering the past can help living organisms make better decisions, but memory comes at a cost. Whether it is an animal searching for food or a single cell responding to its surroundings, storing and using information requires ...

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / Finding order in the inner chaos of our cells: Shape-shifting proteins get a design tool

The vast majority of proteins in our bodies contain regions that are in a constant state of wiggling, shape-shifting every few nanoseconds to completely change how they look. Information on how these shape-shifting proteins ...

Jul 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / New mechanism reveals how heart cells resist regenerative reprogramming

Specialized cells in the human body make biological trade-offs to perform certain jobs. To support the large, hardworking hearts that power other organs, heart cells have evolved to be extremely efficient and resilient. Because ...

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / Moon's thick crust could amplify elusive gravitational-wave signals

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in the cosmos accelerate or collide. By detecting these waves, astrophysicists can study various cosmic events, including ...

Jul 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images

Generating an image of a person on a computer using text prompts is easy. Generating one with two people is similarly simple. But creating an image of multiple people actually doing something, and faithfully reproducing not ...

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / Extragalactic positron-annihilation hotspots might mean Milky Way produces far more positrons than thought

Positrons—the antimatter counterpart of electrons—are created in high-energy cosmic processes. When normal matter meets its antimatter counterpart, they annihilate, or vanish, and produce a distinctive 511 keV gamma-ray signal. ...

Jul 27, 2026